Description: Beaver Island, Michigan - an Island 30 miles off the coast in Lake Michigan. News, information, places, community, reviews, artists, history, and the people of Beaver Island.
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As the center island of the Beaver Island Archipelago, Beaver Island offers a unique opportunity and freedom to live in nature, surrounded by magnificent forests, dramatic sand dunes, friendly people, majestic wildlife, and beautiful sand beaches and blue green water in every direction you walk.
Most people coming to Beaver Island look forward to its abundant nature and solitude. But the Island also offers the basic conveniences of life - access by either ferry or airplane, groceries, hardware store, Internet access virtually island-wide, community center, fine museums, yacht dock and marina, gift shops, music festival, art galleries, and many events during the summer.
Much of what the Island offers is free for the finding: beachcombing, bird watching, biking, camping, hunting, fishing, cross country skiing, or exploring the other islands. View the shipwrecks, enjoy kayaking, snorkeling, go scuba diving, or explore the Beaver Island archipelago with fishing, island-hopping, lighthouse, or sunset charters. There are over 100 miles of scenic roads, and too many old trails to count. Abandoned old cabins. Beaver dams. Landscape artifacts that go back thousands of years. The b